Fully Experiencing Your Salvation

So get rid of all evil behavior. Be done with all deceit, hypocrisy, jealousy, and all unkind speech.  Like newborn babies, you must crave pure spiritual milk so that you will grow into a full experience of salvation.  Cry out for this nourishment, now that you have had a taste of the Lord’s kindness.

—1 Peter 2:1-3 (NLT)

LORD GOD,

I know that You are good and kind—for I have tasted of Your goodness and kindness from the day You saved me.

Set me free from every trace of wickedness and any desire there may be within me to cause pain, injury, or distress to others—so that no longer would evil behavior be seen in me.

Set me free from any tendency to try to deceive others—so that my true intentions will always be understood and my actions will always reflect my words.

Set me free from each temptation that comes to entice me to pretend to be someone that I am not—and help me to be, vulnerably and sincerely, just who I am.

Set me free from any envy for, or resentment toward, the blessings I see in the lives of others—so I might be content with Your generous blessing upon my own life.

Set me free from wrongly using my words to slander another person's reputation, or to hurt or insult others—so that my words might be a continual praise to You.

May I cry out for the nourishment of the pure spiritual milk of Your Word—just as a newborn baby cries out without restraint for the life giving milk of his mother—knowing without it I cannot grow into everything you called me to become and fully experience the depths of Your salvation.

I know that You are good and kind—for I have tasted of Your goodness and kindness from the day You saved me.

In the name of Jesus, Amen.